Project Redcap:Events history

2012

Grand Tribunal (UK) 2013 Announced

The UK session of the Ars Magica convention, Grand Tribunal 2013 (UK), will be held in Cheltenham, England on August 16-18, 2013.

Kickstarter for Ars Magica Computer Game

20 November 2012

The Kickstarter fundraising campaign for Years of Conquest, an Ars Magica computer game, failed to meet its fundraising target so the studio will not be able to make the game.

19 October 2012

For the first time, a software studio has proposed to develop a computer game of Ars Magica! This is a Kickstarter project, meaning the developer is asking for pledges up-front and if that raises enough money, they'll be able to make the game. See our Years of Conquest page for more information.

Announcing Project Redcap 3.0!

1 September 2012

The Project: Redcap volunteers are pleased to announce that we've migrated Project: Redcap to the MediaWiki engine. We call this Project: Redcap 3.0 (where 2.0 was the previous Redcap wiki). The new wiki engine will provide an easier-to-use and more familiar user interface as well as new and powerful management tools for the maintainers.

Effective immediately, the new wiki is available at the normal Project: Redcap address, http://www.redcap.org.

Impact of the Change

The Project: Redcap maintainers believe this change will make it easier to find information on our site, and easier to create pages. Unfortunately, it was not practical to migrate the user database, so people with existing user accounts will need to create new ones. The new wiki also supports anonymous editing, so you do not need an account to edit the pages.

Our Mission

Project: Redcap is is an online reference for fans of the Ars Magica roleplaying game. It has two related goals.

1. Provide a centralized place where visitors can browse and find links to as much Ars Magica material as possible, in as many languages as possible. We want to be, as Project: Redcap's founder put it, "the crossroads of the Order." We want to link to everything related to Ars Magica, without passing judgment on the importance or quality of the site. 2. Be a guide and companion for the rules and game world of Ars Magica, providing useful rules summaries, examples, and commentaries on topics from across the game's extensive product line.

Project: Redcap Needs Your Help!

Since 2005, when Andrew Gronosky took over maintenance of Project: Redcap, we have had comparatively few new external links added to Project: Redcap. In fact, we lost links to a great many Ars Magica pages when the free Web-hosting service GeoCities shut down in 2009. Although the Redcap wiki has been slowly expanding to support the second mission of Project: Redcap, the overall number of working links has declined substantially.

Simply put, we need contributions from the community in order to survive and thrive. If you own or know of an Ars Magica Web site, please add a link to it to Project: Redcap. If you don't want to edit the wiki yourself, use our contact form at http://www.redcap.org/page/Special:Contact and a maintainer will add the link for you. We know the fan community is alive and well, and with your help we can keep Project: Redcap a valuable asset for that community.

We welcome any contributions, large or small. If you would like to get involved in the project, please visit our community portal at http://www.redcap.org/page/Project_Redcap:Community_portal

Pre-Launch Events

18 August 2012

We have finished migrating content from the previous Wiki. We are now in the process of cleaning up: removing duplicate and stub articles and cleaning up formatting glitches from the migration.

6 August 2012

Migration of the content from PageWork to MediaWiki is underway. We've uploaded several hundred pages as a pilot project and are making adjustments to the process before finishing the rest. It looks like there will be a considerable amount of cleanup and re-organization to do. We'll take care of that after the content is all uploaded.

18 July 2012

After a few months of being busy with other things, the maintainers are getting ready for a mass conversion of the "old style" PageWork-based Wiki content to this MediaWiki back-end.

January 2012

In January 2012, the maintainers of Project: Redcap made the decision to migrate our content from the original Wiki software, PageWork, to MediaWiki. This transition is beginning slowly with a manual copying of the more complex pages. When our schedules permit we will write software to automatically translate the short, simple pages (the great majority of Project: Redcap's content), then retire the PageWork site.

During this transition the main Project: Redcap site is still active but has a low rate of activity.

2011

No entries. It's not that nothing happened, it's that Andrew Gronosky was not fastidious about updating the Project Redcap:Current events page (or its equivalent).

Probably the main thing that was done in 2011 was to consolidate and update the pages on regional Tribunals, merging the player-created saga sites onto the Tribunal pages. (Previously, the saga sites were listed on separate pages for each Tribunal.)

2010

• 2010-07-27: We received our first spam attack. We will have to disable anonymous editing, permanently. :-(
• 2010-03-22: The free Web hosting service Geocities went offline on October 27, 2009. Today we began the process of going through and pruning out the links to all the great Ars Magica pages that are gone forever. It's a bit depressing to see that Saga pages that have been around since the mid-1990's have disappeared.
• 2010-03-09: There has been a flurry of activity on content creation. We are filling in a lot of the high-ranked missing resources, and have only a few missing pages with more than 5 backlinks.
• 2010-02-20: Assigned categories to > 50 uncategorized pages.

2009

• 2009-08-22: Server software switched from testing to active.
• 2009-06-19: Server software upgraded to new major release (in fact, entirely new software).
• 2009-05-08: Nearly all the questions from the Redcap FAQ have been incorporated into HermesWeb. I estimate that over 80% of the Project Redcap content is now incorporated into HermesWeb in addition to the hundreds of new articles created just for this project.

2008

In 2008, the encyclopedia was started as an independent Wiki called HermesWeb.

• 2008-12-29: We've got our new, improved navigation bar. Thanks, Pitt!
• 2008-12-29: We had our first anonymous edit using the guest account. This is a big deal because it means at least one other person has contributed to our project! Thank you, whoever you are.
• 2008-12-28: All Saga pages from {the original, static HTML pages} have been migrated to here. Actually, Yair had already done most of the work and I just followed through and checked the links and marked the Redcap pages as outdated. I'll get started on migrating the FAQ next.
• 2008-12-27: Guest account created. See Contributing for instructions.
• 2008-12-27: Posted transition plan.
• 2008-09-07: HermesWeb has gone public! We're now listed in | Project: Redcap
• 2008-08-09: There is | another Ars Magica Wiki out there! It looks like we won't be the only interactive site for Ars Magica fans. This is not, however, necessarily a bad thing.
• 2008-04-11: We now have over 400 pages, mostly due to Yair's incredible efforts
• 2008-03-12: Created Administration page to discuss plans and needs (This is now located at Project Redcap:Administration -- AG)
• 2008-03-11: Rewrote the About page to talk about important points.
• 2008-01-10: Overview created as a means to collect entry points.
• 2008-01-09: About page created.
• 2008-01-04: System setup.

Legacy Page

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